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Mount Pisgah, South Carolina

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mount Pisgah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 29067. The Survey maps it on the Mount Pisgah quadrangle.

Mount Pisgah within Kershaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Mount Pisgah between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,045 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 15 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Debris and open burning70
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism15
Natural11
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Other causes3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning30 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kershaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Pisgah: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Griffin Mine No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerSedimentary
Lancaster County MinesSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kershaw County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mount Pisgah in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994HailMount Pisgah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kershaw County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Minton Mill4.1 miles13
Abney Crossroads5.0 miles14
Kirkley Mill5.5 miles19
Barfield Mill6.8 miles19
Baxley10.0 miles14
Gaston Mill10.3 miles19
Pine Village10.3 miles14
Lockhart Oil Field10.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1224761. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.